There are three steps to success with GitKraken. That's it!
I've generally been cloning your AUR repo, making local changes (such as source url, adding conflict for your gitkraken package, etc.). I would like to submit this modified PKGBUILD (for the standalone version of gitkraken) to the AUR as more of our users are migrating to arch-based distros and need to use the standalone version of gitkraken.
- Download GitKraken
- Install GitKraken
- Use GitKraken
No Git tools are required for GitKraken, so once you’ve run the installer, you can open the app and get going.
GitKraken is available for download as a free app for any open source and non-commercial project with the option for users to try out is 7-day GitKraken Pro trial for free. Features in GitKraken. Cross-Platform: Free to download for GNU/Linux, Windows, and macOS. FitKraken Pro version for commercial use and a ton of extra features. For example, here GitKraken, it is only available via Snap, since apt search gitkraken returned no results and looking at the bottom of app page: Also, dpkg is a tool for managing deb packages and apt is a front end for dpkg. That's why you can't find GitKraken in dpkg -list. The GitKraken Git client is available for all Ubuntu Linux users, version 16.04 and above, via a downloadable DEB package. If you’re using Ubuntu and want to get the client working, start out by opening up a terminal window on the desktop. You can open a terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T or Ctrl + Shift + T on the keyboard. See commands here: this video I am going to show you how to install latest Gitkraken on Ubuntu 17.04 and below. See above link for th.
It works directly with your repositories with no dependencies—you don’t even need to have Git installed on your system. GitKraken is built with NodeGit, a Git framework that is primarily developed and maintained by members of the GitKraken development team.
Below are platform-specific details on minimum requirements and common issues when things may not go as expected.
Looking for GitKraken Enterprise installation instructions? Then please start in with our Enterprise System Requirements page.
Windows (.exe file)
- System requirements: Windows 8 or later
Install Instructions
Double-click the downloaded executable file, and follow the installation instructions.
Data Location
GitKraken data is stored with your home profile in C:Users{user}AppDataRoaming or %APPDATA%/.gitkraken on older versions.
Mac OS (.dmg file)
- System requirements: Mac OS X 10.9+ (up to and including OS X El Capitan) / macOS Sierra or later
Install Instructions
Double click the downloaded DMG file and when prompted, drag and drop the GitKraken icon to your Applications folder.
Data Location
GitKraken data is stored in /Users/{user}/.gitkraken~/.gitkraken.
Linux (.deb, .rpm, and .tar.gz files)
- .deb system requirements: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or later
- .rpm system requirements: RHEL 7+, CentOS 7+, or Fedora 30+
Note 📝 - GitKraken currently supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS+, RHEL 7+, CentOS 7+, and Fedora 30+. While GitKraken may be able to be installed on other Linux distributions, we cannot guarantee that it will work as expected.
.deb
GitKraken has a simple package available for Debian based distributions.
Or download the file.
.tar
Or download the file.
.rpm
Or download the file.
Data Location
GitKraken data is stored in /home/{user}/.gitkraken~/.gitkraken.
Run GitKraken
Upon installation, some Linux distros do not automatically create shortcuts to the app.
To run GitKraken manually, open the terminal and type gitkraken to start the app.
Known issues on Linux
Error with libcurl.so.4
Error: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
Run the following command to address the dependency issue.
Error with libcurl-gnutls.so.4
libcurl-gnutls.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Run the following command to address this issue.
Error with libXss.so.1
./gitkraken./gitkraken: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Run the following command to address this issue.
Gitkraken Ubuntu 14.04
GitKraken now offers official snap package to make it easy to install and update the software in Ubuntu Linux.
Ubuntu Gitkraken
Used by the likes of Netflix, Tesla and Apple, GitKraken is the go-to home for developers who are looking for a more user-friendly interface for Git with integrations for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and VSTS (Azure DevOps).
GitKraken Snap is containerised software package designed to work within most Linux desktop. It bundles its required dependencies and auto-updates itself once a new release package published.
To install GitKraken Snap in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher, simply open Ubuntu Software, search for and install gitkraken:
For Ubuntu 16.04, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run commands to install the snap: